Words from Abroad: Trauma and Displacement in Postwar German Jewish Writers

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Beschreibung

Words from Abroad takes its lead from the disjunction between public ritual and private crisis to chart the emergence of a new literary diaspora, examining German Jewish writers who were dislocated in the course of World War II and began rewriting their own displacement more than a decade after the war.

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Katja Garloff is associate professor of German and humanities at Reed College.